New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is software going to replace managers?
Ask HN: Is software going to replace managers?
3 by lifeisstillgood | 2 comments on Hacker News.
Ok - so there is a bbc podcast on this I am halfway through - it's pretty darn good but it has a sort of thesis that you can replace the manager part with some co-ordination software. Which kind of begs the question what is a manager? Anyway - my first thought is coders are new managers (the real knowledge workers are CPUs and GPUs, and if the job of a manager is to build systems to co-ordinate and improve their workers, then that is a good description of a coder) and second thought is that an awful lot of what is table stakes for a software project today is replacing co-ordination with software A simple CO/CD pipeline plus regression testing allows disparate teams to work on the same "system" without serious conflicts, and throw in decent feature flaggging and much of the "programme manager role is gone" it's late, but I am interested in peoples thoughts
3 by lifeisstillgood | 2 comments on Hacker News.
Ok - so there is a bbc podcast on this I am halfway through - it's pretty darn good but it has a sort of thesis that you can replace the manager part with some co-ordination software. Which kind of begs the question what is a manager? Anyway - my first thought is coders are new managers (the real knowledge workers are CPUs and GPUs, and if the job of a manager is to build systems to co-ordinate and improve their workers, then that is a good description of a coder) and second thought is that an awful lot of what is table stakes for a software project today is replacing co-ordination with software A simple CO/CD pipeline plus regression testing allows disparate teams to work on the same "system" without serious conflicts, and throw in decent feature flaggging and much of the "programme manager role is gone" it's late, but I am interested in peoples thoughts
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